Choral SSAATTBB choir, Piano (for rehearsal)

SKU: CF.CM9738

Composed by Jacob Narverud. 16 pages. Duration 3 minutes. Carl Fischer Music #CM9738. Published by Carl Fischer Music (CF.CM9738).

ISBN 9781491161180. UPC: 680160919765. Key: Eb major. English. Barter by Sara Teasdale.

Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings, And children's faces looking up Holding wonder in a cup.   Life has loveliness to sell, Music like a curve of gold, Scent of pine trees in the rain, Eyes that love you, arms that hold, And for your spirit's still delight, Holy thoughts that star the night.   Spend all you have for loveliness, Buy it and never count the cost; For one white singing hour of peace Count many a year of strife well lost, And for a breath of ecstacy Give all you have been, or could be. --Barter from Love Songs (1918) by Sara Teasdale Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) was an American poet whose short, personal lyrics are noted for their classical simplicity and quiet intensity. Teasdale was born in St. Louis, Missouri and traveled to Chicago as a young woman, where she grew acquainted with Harriet Monroe and the literary circle around Poetry. Teasdale wrote seven books of poetry in her lifetime and received public admiration for her well-crafted lyrical poetry which centered on a woman's changing perspectives of beauty, love, life, and death. Jacob Narverud (b. 1986) is an American composer, arranger, and conductor. A native Kansan, Jacob is the Founder/Artistic Director of the Tallgrass Chamber Choir, a professional ensemble of musicians from across the Great Plains. Dr. Narverud is a frequent guest lecturer at universities and conferences as well as an active guest conductor/clinician for choral festivals and all-state choirs across the United States. Many of his compositions are publisher best sellers and are performed worldwide by choirs of all levels. Website: jnarverud.com YouTube & Spotify: jacobnarverud.
Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings, And children's faces looking up Holding wonder like a cup.   Life has loveliness to sell, Music like a curve of gold, Scent of pine trees in the rain, Eyes that love you, arms that hold, And for your spirit's still delight, Holy thoughts that star the night.   Spend all you have for loveliness, Buy it and never count the cost; For one white singing hour of peace Count many a year of strife well lost, And for a breath of ecstacy Give all you have been, or could be. --Barter from Love Songs (1918) by Sara Teasdale Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) was an American poet whose short, personal lyrics are noted for their classical simplicity and quiet intensity. Teasdale was born in St. Louis, Missouri and traveled to Chicago as a young woman, where she grew acquainted with Harriet Monroe and the literary circle around Poetry. Teasdale wrote seven books of poetry in her lifetime and received public admiration for her well-crafted lyrical poetry which centered on a woman's changing perspectives of beauty, love, life, and death. Jacob Narverud (b. 1986) is an American composer, arranger, and conductor. A native Kansan, Jacob is the Founder/Artistic Director of the Tallgrass Chamber Choir, a professional ensemble of musicians from across the Great Plains. Dr. Narverud is a frequent guest lecturer at universities and conferences as well as an active guest conductor/clinician for choral festivals and all-state choirs across the United States. Many of his compositions are publisher best sellers and are performed worldwide by choirs of all levels. Website: jnarverud.com YouTube & Spotify: jacobnarverud.
Life has loveliness to sell,All beautiful and splendid things,Blue waves whitened on a cliff,Soaring fire that sways and sings,And children's faces looking upHolding wonder like a cup. Life has loveliness to sell,Music like a curve of gold,Scent of pine trees in the rain,Eyes that love you, arms that hold,And for your spirit's still delight,Holy thoughts that star the night. Spend all you have for loveliness,Buy it and never count the cost;For one white singing hour of peaceCount many a year of strife well lost,And for a breath of ecstacyGive all you have been, or could be.       Â Â Â Â Â Â� �       —“Barter ” from Love Songs (1918) by Sara Teasdale Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) was an American poet whose short, personal lyrics are noted for their classical simplicity and quiet intensity. Teasdale was born in St. Louis, Missouri and traveled to Chicago as a young woman, where she grew acquainted with Harriet Monroe and the literary circle around Poetry. Teasdale wrote seven books of poetry in her lifetime and received public admiration for her well-crafted lyrical poetry which centered on a woman’s changing perspectives of beauty, love, life, and death.Jacob Narverud (b. 1986) is an American composer, arranger, and conductor. A native Kansan, Jacob is the Founder/Artistic Director of the Tallgrass Chamber Choir, a professional ensemble of musicians from across the Great Plains. Dr. Narverud is a frequent guest lecturer at universities and conferences as well as an active guest conductor/clinician for choral festivals and all-state choirs across the United States. Many of his compositions are publisher best sellers and are performed worldwide by choirs of all levels.Website: jnarverud.com          YouTube & Spotify: jacobnarverud.

SSAATTBB choir, cello

SKU: CA.738661

Composed by Michael Waldenby. Contemporary Choir Music. Epilog.Deum Time. Sacred vocal music, Motets. Single Part, Cello. Op. 49, No. 6. 2 pages. Duration 4 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 07.386/61. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.738661).

ISBN 9790007229351. Text language: Latin.

The composition of Verba Ecclesiastes begun in 2002 as a result of a comission from my friend Gary Graden. For many years I've found those words from the Old Testament very fascinating - as everyone knows, I'm not alone. Vanity of vanities! All is vanity! Writers, painters and filmmakers have for centuries been dealing with the subject and I found it high time to set the famous words to music. The suite, for soloists, choir and violoncello, consists of six movements, each one enlighting a different view of life and afterlife, and also, as Matthew Arnold puts it of human misery. Yet the suite is full of hope and humanity, specially recognizable in the two central parts, Dulce lumen and Omnia tempus habent. The music was completed in 2009. (Michael Waldenby).

SSAATTBB choir, cello

SKU: CA.738660

Composed by Michael Waldenby. Contemporary Choir Music. Epilog.Deum Time. Sacred vocal music, Motets. Full score. Op. 49, No. 6. 4 pages. Duration 4 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 07.386/60. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.738660).

ISBN 9790007166311. Text language: Latin.

The composition of Verba Ecclesiastes begun in 2002 as a result of a comission from my friend Gary Graden. For many years I've found those words from the Old Testament very fascinating - as everyone knows, I'm not alone. Vanity of vanities! All is vanity! Writers, painters and filmmakers have for centuries been dealing with the subject and I found it high time to set the famous words to music. The suite, for soloists, choir and violoncello, consists of six movements, each one enlighting a different view of life and afterlife, and also, as Matthew Arnold puts it of human misery. Yet the suite is full of hope and humanity, specially recognizable in the two central parts, Dulce lumen and Omnia tempus habent. The music was completed in 2009. (Michael Waldenby).

By Stroope. For SSAATTBB choir, a cappella. Choral octavo. Published by Alliance Music Publications. (AMP 0530)

By A. Laurence Lyon (1934-2006). Arranged by Ron Simpson. For SSAATTBB Chorus and Piano (SSAATTBB). Sacred. Octavo. 7 pages. Duration 3:30

Composed by Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn (1809-1847). For SSAATTBB choir, a cappella. Mixed Voices. Church Music Society Publications. Sacred. Level B (easy). Octavo. 17 pages. Duration 3'. Published by Oxford University Press

By Pavel Grigorievich Chesnokov (1877-1944). Arranged by A. T. Davison. For SSAATTBB Choir. Choral, general. Octavo. 4 pages. Published by E.C. Schirmer Publishing

SSAATTBB choir, baritone voice solo, piano reduction - Intermediate

SKU: GI.G-7389

Arranged by Nathan Carter. African American Church Music Series. Tune Name: Peaceful Valley. Sacred. Octavo. 8 pages. GIA Publications #7389. Published by GIA Publications (GI.G-7389).

UPC: 785147738909. English. Text source: Negro Spiritual.

A Negro spiritual richly scored for unaccompanied SSAATTB voices. Not at all complex, just very full sounding if you’ve got the voices. A comforting text that promises that, with Jesus as our leader, we shall walk through the valley of life in peace.

A comforting text that promises that, with Jesus as our leader, we shall walk through the valley of life in peace.

Aus: Drei Kirchenmusiken. By Felix Mendelssohn. Edited by Graulich, Gunter. For SSAATTBB Choir. Stuttgart Urtext editions; Occasions: Mourning, Death; Use during church year: End of the church year. Score. Language: German/English. Composed 1830. 23 no. 3. 16 pages. Duration 7 min. Published by Carus Verlag (German import).

Poem by e.e. cummings, composed by Eric Whitacre (1970-). Octavo for SSAATTBB choir (A Cappella). With piano rehearsal part. Series: Walton Choral. 16 pages. Published by Walton Music.

By Jackson Hill. For SSAATTBB Choir. Evoking Sound. Sacred. Medium/Difficult. 12 pages. Published by GIA Publications

Choral SSAATTBB choir, Piano (for rehearsal)

SKU: CF.CM530

Composed by Norwegian Folk. Edited by Walter Aschenbrenner. Arranged by Edvard Bull Edvard Grieg. SWS. Performance Score. With Standard notation. Composed 1939. 8 pages. Carl Fischer Music #CM530. Published by Carl Fischer Music (CF.CM530).

ISBN 9781491144978. UPC: 680160902477. 6.875 x 10.5 inches. Key: G major. English. Edvard Bull.

From his Album for Male Voices, Op. 30, a set of 12 Norwegian folksongs set for chorus with male leads, The Great Angelic Host was arranged for double mixed chorus by Eyvind H. Bull, and has here been edited by Walter Aschenbrenner. We are pleased to make this exquisite choral work available once again. David Monrad Johansen, in his published life of Grieg, was moved to say, In The Great Angelic Host true religious feeling has been given the purest expression. This composition shows what wonderful material we have right at hand on which to base a future church music for Norway..

Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) - advanced

SKU: HL.49018397

(In the Fields). Composed by Nikolai Andreyevich Roslavets. Edited by Marina Lobanova. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. Edition Schott. Choral score. 12 pages. Duration 2'. Schott Music #C54051. Published by Schott Music (HL.49018397).

ISBN 9790001174220. UPC: 884088648763. 7.5x11.5x0.051 inches. Russian.

In the days of Roslawez, the use of lyrical texts in Russian choral music was an exception. Traditionally, sacred liturgical texts were preferred in choral singing. Roslawez composed only a few choral works anyway, so this excellent cantabile piece is a real treasure. The poem 'Na poljach' (In the Fields) was written by the Russian poet Pyotr Oreshin. Little solo parts answered by the tutti, charming harmonies and a floating rhythm result in an Impressionist tonal image. The piece is quite easy to sing and will bring pleasure to both performers and listeners.Roslawez studied composition and violin in Moscow. He was among the leading figures of the musical scene in the 1920s. Treated more and more with hostility for political reasons and eventually barred from pursuing his career, he spent the last years of his life in poverty.

SSAATTBB choir & organ (ad lib.) (SATB) - easy

SKU: OU.9780193954120

Composed by William Sterndale Bennett. Edited by Peter Horton. Sacred choral - mixed voices. Church Music Society Publications. Vocal score. 16 pages. Duration 5'. Oxford University Press #9780193954120. Published by Oxford University Press (OU.9780193954120).

ISBN 9780193954120. 12 x 8 inches.

for SSAATTBB and organ (ad lib.)
Born 200 years ago this year and orphaned at the age of 3, Sterndale Bennett was brought up by his grandfather in Cambridge, where he sang in the choir of King's College before entering the Royal Academy of Music to study the piano at the age of 10. He was later to become Professor of Music at Cambridge and Principal of the RAM. This fine eight-part setting of verses from Psalm 71, written towards the end of his life, explores imitative and antiphonal textures.

SSAATTBB choir

SKU: C4.9790902260480

Composed by Brooke Shelley. Classical. Score. Crescendo Music Publications #9790902260480. Published by Crescendo Music Publications (C4.9790902260480).

ISBN 9790902260480. 8.27 x 11.7 inches.

Heavenly Father was commissioned by Sydney Chamber Choir for a concert in 2022 which featured Heinrich Schütz’s Musikalische Exequien. Melodic lines from Schütz’s work are used throughout Heavenly Father: the first soprano melody in the opening chorus at ‘Herr Gott Vater in Himmel’ is featured at the beginning and repeated throughout, as are the melodies, for example, at ‘Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt’, and at ‘seinem verklärten Leibe’, among other places.

In a conversation about what this commission would be, it was agreed that the sense of the work would be about the circle of life expressed in Musikalische Exequien rather than about death itself. It is because of this ‘sense’ that the end of Heavenly Father is reversed, illustrating a musical circle: the lower voices sing the ‘Herr Gott Vater in Himmel’ phrase backwards, and the upper voices sing the melodies backwards that were sung by the lower voices at the beginning.

SSAATTBB choir - Late intermediate

SKU: GI.WW1954

Composed by Rob Dietz. Walton Choral. Tune Name: The Lone Wild Bird. Classical. Octavo. 16 pages. Walton Music #WW1954. Published by Walton Music (GI.WW1954).

UPC: 785147043164. English. Text by Stephanie Dietz.

Empire of Blue uses the traditional hymn The Lone Wild Bird as a bookend to explore how small moments in life, can help us understand our place in the world. This work combines folk melodies with contemporary a cappella techniques to create something truly unique and moving.

Choir, Organ Accompaniment, Voice, SSAATTBB, 3-Part, SAB Composed by William Child. Edited by Geoffrey Webber. Church Music Society Publications. Vocal score. 16 pages. Duration 4'. Oxford University Press #9780193707955. Published by Oxford University Press

Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) - Level 4

SKU: BA.BA07414

Composed by Marten Jansson. Stapled. Choral score. 12 pages. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA07414_00. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.BA07414).

ISBN 9790006559183. 27 x 19 cm inches. Text Language: Latin.

Based on the well-known bible text “Sing unto the Lord a new song” (Psalm 96:1-3), this upbeat composition with strong dynamics and flowing block chords alternating with fast-paced polyphony brings across this joyful message and enthuses singers.

Originall y conceived for male choir, women’s voices have now been added so that this version for mixed choir presents a further dimension of colour. This version also makes it possible to divide the choir into two groups, one for women and another for men, and to have them sing either together or as separate units.

The version for mixed choir was premiered in Uppsala Cathedral (Sweden) on 26 October 2013, with the Uppsala Cathedral Singers conducted by Ulric Andersson.

“ My music is my own and I have never tried to be original. That has always been my motto and I have only tried to use music to express all the feelings which life has to offer. This has led people to describe my music as ‘so sad that it sounds like birds who have lost their wings‘ but also as ‘the happiest classical music that we have ever heard’.
My compositions are almost all sacred. They express not only my own faith but also my appreciation and respect for the timeless texts that have been used for centuries and centuries.”

Mårten Jansson (b. 1965), elected member of the Föreningen svenska tonsättare (the Society of Swedish Composers), graduated from the Royal College of Music, Stockholm (KHM) with an MFA degree in Music Education, Dalcroze Eurhythmics and Voice. For more than ten years he was the music director and conductor of “Carmen”, one of the most prominent womens’ vocal ensembles in Sweden. He currently teaches choral conducting and music theory as well as giving vocal tuition at the Bolandgymnasiet and Musikskolan in his home town of Uppsala.

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